she spreads her wings and takes to the skies.

[yatagarasu]

Open Post: The Kay Faraday Edition
This is my permanent Kay Faraday open post. Spam me with prompts, picture prompts, AUs, and the like. Indicate canon point or universe when necessary. Please note that I don't do slash, smut, anything sexual or anything overly and excessively violent.
Canon	Future AU
Choose a canon point, any canon point! Even from AAI2, why not.	7-8 years later, AJ/DD era. Prosecutor who studied under Miles Edgeworth. Still hyper and makes thief jokes. Still the Yatagarasu.
Somarium	Mask or Menace
Lived with Edgeworth and Stitch. Recruited Ema, Trucy and Maya into the Yatagarasu. 19 years old. Had college plans.	Can command and talk to crows, replicate voices and sounds perfectly, and use Charter Magic. Juror for Teen Court.

Badger get!

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[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth spreads out his towel on the rock next to Kay's as she speaks, then seats himself on the blanket.]

If I did that, my bangs would become far less orderly, much as they were when I was a boy, until I put effort into styling them once more.

[yatagarasu]

[Kay leans to her left and points out the lock of hair still sticking up from the back of Edgeworth's head.]

It doesn't seem to work for that part of your hair, though. [She takes a swig from her cup of juice.]

[truthsnomiracle]

[Apparently, that's a bit of a sore spot with Edgeworth, to judge by his annoyed expression as he moves the pink cup closer to him, then takes the bottle of iced tea.]

Nor, admittedly, does anything else.

[yatagarasu]

[She stares at him for a brief moment; boy, he must have tried so many different things to get it to stay down. Most likely, it would continue to stick up no matter how wet his hair was, even after swimming from the buoy to the lagoon and then to the shore.]

...Well, I'll let you know if we come up with something for that. [And by "we", she means, "we merpeople". Which is kind of a long shot, but anyway.]

[truthsnomiracle]

Your attentiveness is most appreciated.

[As Edgeworth says this, he pours himself a quarter of a bottle of the iced tea. He then picks the cup up and sips at it experimentally...]

...Huh. I'm impressed that you managed to find a bottled iced tea of moderate quality.

[yatagarasu]

[Kay grins widely and tries to perform a fancy bow...while seated.]

Thank you! I worked my way down 'cause the best ones were pretty expensive. Plus, I had to stock up on food for the two of us...especially since you'll probably be swinging by here more often from now on.

[truthsnomiracle]

For that to be the case, I'll need to make longer-term arrangements for transport — and your own planning will need to be better.

[Read, no more forcing me to swim through a tunnel long enough to make me uncomfortably short of breath without the ring, kthx.]

[yatagarasu]

Hey, I remembered the food, the drinks, the guards who'll turn away any curious human divers...

[What else? She thinks, looking at him over the rim of her cup. Wait...]

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth watches Kay's expression for any moment of realization concerning what he thinks should be obvious. Once satisfied, however, he only takes a sip of tea before saying:]

But in the meantime, we have more immediate business to attend to, do we not?

[yatagarasu]

[It's at that moment that realization dawns upon her, however.]

Oh, wait, were you talking about how to get here?

[truthsnomiracle]

I was prepared to deal with that myself, save the last leg of the journey. Now that I know where it is, most of that inconvenience is dealt with.

[yatagarasu]

["Most". Kay catches that hint.]

"Most". I can help you deal with the rest... [The best way of saying, "I can help you get over your fear?"]

[truthsnomiracle]

Er...

[Edgeworth goes silent and looks away from Kay. Even if she inexplicably doesn't think less of him for it, he's still not comfortable with the idea of openly dwelling on one of his weaknesses alongside someone else. It's unavoidably true that his life situation has changed such that this needs addressing as much as his related problem with elevators, but...

The prosecutor looks back to Kay.]

While I concede that it's become necessary to squash that weakness, I believe I'm perfectly capable of addressing that myself. I see no reason to involve you.

[yatagarasu]

[Kay drains the last of the juice from her cup and stretches her legs out on the blanket.]

It's more than necessary! That's why I'm volunteering to help. Don't you think a mermaid assistant's perfect for that job?

[truthsnomiracle]

You've yet to establish why I would need assistance for this task to begin with.

[Hard to cross his arms when he's holding a cup of tea, but the sentiment is definitely there.]

[yatagarasu]

You don't understand, I'm thinking long-term here! Sometimes you won't be able to call me, or beep me, or reach me, and then you'd find yourself in a pickle!

...A really deep and wet pickle!

[truthsnomiracle]

(What precisely does she imagine that I intend to do — tie myself to the bottom of the ocean?)

I have no intention of actually endangering myself in the process, Kay. That would defeat the purpose of convincing myself that my sense of its danger is exaggerated in the first place.

[Edgeworth takes a long sip of his iced tea.]

[yatagarasu]

I know, but we gotta prepare for the worst, don't we? [She pours herself more juice.] You can't always depend on me to hand you a shiny artifact! [Kay, you were the one who offered to hand him shiny artifacts.]

[truthsnomiracle]

And just what sort of worst case scenario are you imagining? (Aside from those that would be merely embarrassing for others to see.)

[yatagarasu]

Do I really have to elaborate?

[She stares into her cup.]

Worst case scenario - I'm not around, and neither are my trinkets!

[truthsnomiracle]

Why are you simply reiterating why I need to overcome this as though this constituted a reason why I oughtn't make the attempt to do so alone?!

[yatagarasu]

[Kay stares at him...then suddenly:]

All right then, I won't loan you the ring on the way back! [She says this almost eagerly.]

[truthsnomiracle]

[It's a good thing that cup of iced tea is almost empty, or else Edgeworth's sudden jerk back in shock would have sent drops flying.]

Gmnugh?!

[yatagarasu]

Don't worry, I'll accompany you along the way. [Kay waves a hand dismissively.]

You did say you wanted to face it, that's a start. Unless you want to start with something smaller?

[truthsnomiracle]

Of course I know that!

[It just blindsided him for her to suddenly propose that, that's all.]

Admittedly, I had smaller steps in mind first, though, yes. Furthermore, I still fail to see see why you believe I must specifically put my weaknesses on further display for you!